Tag Archive: 5 Minutes For Mom

A Dose of Humor – Housewife Royalty

5 Minutes for Parenting’s weekly column, A Dose of Humor, is here to remind you to take your humor pill regularly as the best medicine to treat the side effects of parenting! It features a different blogger every week and is hosted by Rachel at Grasping for Objectivity in My Subjective Life. Now you can…

The Bear Went Over The Mountain

By Beck Where I live is very, very rocky – not mountains, really, but just giant outcroppings of rocks and hills – and the other day my kids were outside and I was occupying myself my cleaning up the detrius of winter (its coffee cups and chip bags) when I realized that not one of…

You Moved Us

By Nell Sarah with Tales from Oakbriar Farm shares a sugary sweet motherhood milestone in “My First Conversation with Evie“. Mel with Box of Chocolates writes so honestly about something we all want for our children & strive for ourselves in “I Just Want Them To Be Grateful“. Philip with Days with My Father shares…

Instructions for Parenting

By Cassie Kids don’t come with instructions and neither does being a single parent.  There is no one way to raise your child.  No one to tell you how to handle each situation, each moment, each emotion.  Sometimes it’s easy to find the answer.  Sometimes that motherly instinct comes raging in to save the day. …

Baby Food

By Kelly Growing up, I was never the domestic type. My dream was multiple careers, not multiple kids. I brushed off attempts by my Mom to teach me how to cook and clean and iron. I showed no interest in decorating or design. Heck, I barely knew how to do laundry. In college, I changed…

We’re All In This Together

By Stephanie I was recently interviewed by Janice & Susan of 5 Minutes For Mom and was asked about my vision for 5 Minutes For Parenting. One purpose that is so important to me regarding this blog is how I’d love for this to be a site that any Mom can come to and feel…

On The Birth Day

By Stephanie As I’m preparing for the arrival of our next baby, so much anticipation and emphasis is placed on the day she will arrive. We do not know when it will be, but it will be a day we will never forget. An amazing miracle takes place as this human being that has been…

The Healer’s Signature

By Stephanie It was about this time of year, a few years ago when I went to see a doctor for some allergy problems. On the way out of the doctor’s office it was raining quite hard outside. I decided to run really fast to my van, in super-flat plastic flip-flops… which became little water…

I Love You More Than My Sunglasses

By Stephanie Carter lost my sunglasses in Famous Footwear the other day. Doing some last minute shoe shopping (with no success), it was hot, I’m pregnant, and three boys shooting this way and that throughout a shoe store had me way over the edge. I will be honest- although I am also ashamed of it-…